In high school I was a co-anchor of my school TV show with my best friend Brian. We did a basic news broadcast every Friday during homeroom. The broadcast covered our schools accomplishments anywhere from sports, awards, local news and campaigns. At first Brian and I did it almost as a joke, we both knew a lot of people in our school and we thought our friends would get a kick out of seeing us on TV. But this extracurricular started to turn into a future I could see myself in. I've always loved performing, I acted in plays and musicals my whole life and sang in various acapella groups. I also always been one to genuinely care about whats going on in the world, which was pretty unique for my age. News plus a version of performing seemed to be the perfect fit for me which is why I applied to Annenberg. But it wasn't until my second semester of freshman year until I was positive being in the new industry is what I wanted to do.
In April of 2015, my dad went through an ugly divorce. My stepmom at the time went to news outlets like TMZ and People Magazine to tear my dad apart in lies. It seemed as though every week there would be a new story about my dad in the news that wasn't true. Of course I knew these were lies as well as the rest of my family, but my friends, peers, teachers and the rest of the world would never know the truth and thats what hurt me the most. Whatever kind of reporter or anchor I become, the most important part of it for me is that I'm truthful. I want to make sure I tell the truth before I report it. I want to be ethical in what I report because at the end of the dad who really cares about C-list celebrities getting divorced? Not the audience that I want to reach.
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